Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A Very Short History of Postwar Military Airships

Here's a story I just did about Navy airships. A fantastic technology, full of uses and promises for the future, but unfortunately its future doesn't look good.
 http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/a-very-short-history-of-postwar-military-airships/

The U.S. Navy airship K-69 launches from the deck of the escort carrier USS Mindoro (CVE 120), April 26, 1950. National Museum of Naval Aviation photo
The U.S. Navy airship K-69 launches from the deck of the escort carrier USS Mindoro (CVE 120), April 26, 1950. National Museum of Naval Aviation photo

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Magic and Mayhem During the Third Reich's Final Hours

My novel Germania is about soon-to-be dispossessed Nazi bigwigs at the end of the World War II trying to re-invent themselves during the three-week "Flensburg Government" of Hitler's successor Grand Admiral Doenitz. It combines hard history and elements of the surreal and paranormal. Here is an interview I did about it a while back with Irving Public Television

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Germania Now in Czech Bookshops

My novel Germania just came out in Czech and it was spotted today in a bookseller's window. Right next to the latest bestseller by the Czech fiction king Michal Viewegh.


Just finished the Czech translation of Friend of the Devil. We just haven't figured out whether to put it out as an ebook or convince the Czech publisher to take it on.